Sentences with phrase «in wretched conditions»

Placing his cosmology research on hold, he developed mathematical models to help tackle the housing problems that had left millions of non-whites squatting in wretched conditions.

I remember one alcoholic who was in wretched condition, but who could not admit that his drinking was a real problem.

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By contrast, many other independent workers are in low - wage occupations where the supply of labor is huge and turnover is constant; if someone leaves because of crummy pay or wretched working conditions, the employer can easily tap somebody else to fill the slot.

If the orator were to encounter him in this condition, he would, I think, confront him with all his dignity and say, «Wretched man, that thou couldst let thy soul sink into such foolishness!

Long working hours, poverty accentuated by low wages, wretched housing, periodic unemployment, the menace to health and physical safety, intolerable conditions in crowded jails and prisons, and the deterioration of morals in festering slums evoked angry assaults on the system of which they were a feature and on the failure of the Church to remedy them.

But you show a city whose people live in cramped, wretched conditions, scavenging food from that same garbage can in the Meeting painting.

I just can't imagine people being forced to live like this and then again, here too, in my own country there are people living in pretty wretched conditions.

Scrutiny of conditions within our nation's prisons has steadily intensified from local coverage in the Miami Herald about wretched conditions in a Florida women's correctional facility to the Department of Justice Review...